Over 200,000 children sexually abused by clergymen, leaders of Catholic Church A new independent commission report exposes the extent of clerical sexual abuse in Spain, estimating that more than 200,000 minors have suffered abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent of Spain’s adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children. The percentage rises...